Tamerlane
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Tamerlane [1]
Tamerlane,
a WinBoard compliant chess engine by Luigi Marco Ripamonti, written in C++.
Its development started in 2000 and Tamerlane was first released in April 2001 [2].
It was the author's first attempt to write "something" capable of playing chess [3], soon followed by Madeleine in 2002 [4] .
See also
Forum Posts
- Tamerlane in action! by gianluigi, Winboard Forum, April 27, 2001
- Engine list: New engine Madeleine v0.1, Adam v1.3. ... by Leo Dijksman, Winboard Forum, October 11, 2002
- Also, Madeleine plays much better than Tamerlane by Telmo, Winboard Forum, October 12, 2002
External Links
Chess Engine
Misc
References
- ↑ Tamerlane is the Latinized name of a 14th century Turco-Mongol conqueror Timur, Forensic facial reconstruction by Mikhail Mikhaylovich Gerasimov in 1941, image from Тамерлан — Википеди, Wikimedia Commons
- ↑ Tamerlane in action! by gianluigi, Winboard Forum, April 27, 2001
- ↑ Shield - About Me
- ↑ Engine list: New engine Madeleine v0.1, Adam v1.3. ... by Leo Dijksman, Winboard Forum, October 11, 2002
- ↑ Tamerlane (poem) from Wikipedia: The epic poem by Edgar Allan Poe follows the life of a Turkic conqueror known as Tamerlane. Tamerlane ignores the young love he has for a peasant in order to achieve power. On his deathbed, he regrets this decision to create "a kingdom [in exchange] for a broken heart". The peasant is named Ada in most of Poe's original version of the poem. The name "Ada" is likely a reference to Ada Lovelace, the daughter of Lord Byron ...
